The word "bather" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to someone who is swimming or bathing in a body of water. For example, "The beach was full of bathers on a hot summer day."
The sea, the last part of the world where man acts as a hunter-gatherer as well as bathunter-gatherer as and general polluter—needs management, just as the land does.
Some, perhaps, may simply be intercepting water for one user that would otherwise have gone to another, but almost every country could reduce its evaporation losses by capturing water and delivering it more effectively to the farmer, bather, drinker or manufacturer and then, ideally, using it again.
The relationship inspired some of Picasso's most disturbing portraits, such as "Large Nude in a Red Armchair" (1929) and "Seated Bather" (1930), in which his wife's by now scrawny body undergoes either distortion or radical dismemberment and reconstruction.
The era of paper money and floating exchange rates had arrived.In this section Hit me baby one more time Forty years on Poor dollar standard Pummelled Judges with tenure Don't look down ReprintsAt the time The Economist welcomed the move, proclaiming "Come on, the water's fine!" on its cover, below a picture of a cigar-smoking bather, dressed in a dollar swimsuit.
Half a dozen years later, Ms Dijkstra's photograph of a boy on a beach in Odessa was shown next to Cézanne's "Male Bather" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Size, however, is not a dependable criterion; some smaller sharks may bite or nip a bather, inflicting a minor wound.
His early work was academic and conservative; he was strongly influenced by the monumental works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, as seen in Lehmbruck's The Bather (1905) and his life-sized Mankind (1909).
But Delacroix was not the first to handle Oriental subjects; Ingres had already done so with a reticence that belies the sensuous delight in "Valpinçon Bather" (1808; Louvre) and in "La Grande Odalisque" (1814; Louvre [see photograph]).
Examples of this period include The Artist's Family (1896) and Sleeping Bather (1897).
The clarified form and continuous, unbroken contours of Étienne-Maurice Falconet's marble "Bather" (1757) adapt the Classic tradition to a pretty and intimate Rococo ideal that is the quintessence of 18th-century taste.
Though the theme of the bather was well tried, Hockney's paintings were sleek, modern and eminently saleable.
